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L.A. County search-and-rescue team to return from Haiti today

After saving nine lives during a two-week deployment to help earthquake victims in Haiti, an urban search-and-rescue team from Los Angeles is set to land back in Southern California this evening.

The 72-member team, which included doctors, structural engineers, firefighters, communications specialists and six search-and-rescue dogs, was expected to arrive at the L.A. County Fire Department station in Pacoima about 6:30 p.m., said Inspector Frederic Stowers.

The L.A. team's mission was coordinated by the U.S. Agency for International Development to provide aid to victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit the impoverished Caribbean island nation Jan. 12.

The team will be greeted this evening by their families and fire safety officials, Stowers said. It had last been partially deployed to New Orleans to help Hurricane Katrina victims.